LoJack System Helps Hayward Police Department Recover Stolen Chevrolet Malibu
- May 24, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2003 Chevrolet Malibu contacted the Hayward Police Department to report that his vehicle had been stolen. The victim advised he had gone to look at and test drive a used car being sold by a private party. He parked and locked his Chevrolet on Whitman Avenue and took the car that was for sale on a test drive. When he returned a short time later, he found his Chevrolet had been stolen.
The Hayward PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Chevrolet Malibu.
A short while later, officers from the Hayward PD picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Chevrolet Malibu with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC the officers tracked the stolen Malibu to the parking lot of a shopping center on Mission Boulevard at Sorenson Road where they found the vehicle unoccupied.
The Chevrolet was recovered and released to the owner at the scene.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Chevrolet Malibu in September 2004 at Gilroy Toyota in California.